REGENT THEATRE

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11841, 24 January 1933, Page 7

REGENT THEATRE

•THE SIGN OF FOUR

A thoroughly entertaining programme, ‘ The Sign of Four” opened at the Regent) to-day. “The Sign of Four” is another of the ever.popular

Sherlock Holmes stories which the fertile brain of the late Sir Artur Conan Doyle lias immortalised among all lovers of genuinely exciting and enthralling tales. This is one of the most-, intriguing of the Sherlock Holmes scries, originating in a penal settlement in the Andaman Islands, where Jonathan Small, sinister convict-, is serving a life sentence. Ho reveals- the whereabouts of a hoard nl jewels on the island, to the governor of the colony and Ids -subordinate, swearing that if they do not play fair he will revenge himself. The governor kills his subordinate and decamps with the treasure. Years pass and Sholto, the governor, lives a life ftf terror, dreading that Small will find him. One day this happens and Sholto falls dead. It is then that Sherlock Holmes is called in tq solve the mystery of the crime. A feature of the production is the way in which Arthur Wonter takes the principal role of Sherlock Holmes, bringing to the characterisation all the realism that iwas so cleverly woven into the book. Tliere is an interesting supporting programme of comedy and general interest subjects.